How possible is this ribbon bar combination

[erichcraciun]

Ehrenkreuz fuer Nichtkaempfer...followed by...Ehrenkreuz fier Frontkaempfer....

[Rick Research]

! ! !

[Christian L]

i think someone changed the first ribbon - possibly a ekII ribbon from wwI
but in this way its not possible - like rick said
christian

[landsknechte]

Ehrenkreuz fuer Nichtkaempfer...followed by...Ehrenkreuz fier Frontkaempfer....

Since this was an award that was applied for after the fact, the soldiers that were applying for it either saw combat, or they didn't. A mid-war change in status wouldn't have enabled him to wear earn one, and then earn another later on...

--Chris

[erichcraciun]

Gentlemen,

I just put it up there for discussion. Note where it comes from....

Erich

[Rick Research]

Dealers can rarely be "bothered" to pay attention to the Small Details. That is why (are you listening, Bill D? ) I always say that we, the buyers MUST know absolutely what WE are doing, and none of the "X Is A Super Dealer So He Can Think For Me."

I have bought happily from Herr Weitze since the 1980s and have never had a bad piece, ever. He has kept my period reference shelves groaning for lo these many years and will no doubt I hope far into our mutual old age.

But the TIDAL WAVE of bad ribbon bars has literally-- and I mean literally, covered the planet. And like Rodney Dangerfield, they don't get the "respect" they deserve-- especially at rising market prices.

YOU have got to know what YOU are buying!

Ribbon and medal bars are among the EASIEST areas of militaria, really (I mean that too! ) because they READ like a book, little cloth and metal biographies of their wearer's careers. They are either True Life... or they are Fiction.

These pieces TELL us which, as long as we bother to read them, front to back.

[landsknechte]

Ribbon and medal bars are among the EASIEST areas of militaria, really (I mean that too! ) because they READ like a book, little cloth and metal biographies of their wearer's careers. They are either True Life... or they are Fiction.

These pieces TELL us which, as long as we bother to read them, front to back.

I've got to concur here... I feel far more confident about ribbon bars for the sole fact of being able to read the "story" in a bar, instead of having to squint intently at minute die flaws.

--Chris